ZKM YOUbiläums Browser

The YOUbiläums Browser was created for the ZKM exhibition You_ser: The Century of the Consumer. It is an augmented reality installation that interactively positions virtual information in the physical space of a gallery or museum. It contains video clips that present the ten-year history of the ZKM Centre for Art and Media’s activities, from 1997 to 2007.

Its physical construction is a set of rails mounted on the wall, along which a motorised video monitor can travel to ten positions. These positions are marked with labels for each year of the ZKM’s ten-year history. The viewer uses a lever on the monitor to control its movement in either direction, from one year’s location to the next. Once the screen is in a particular position, it plays a video clip that documents the major cultural events and artistic productions that took place at the ZKM during that year.